VOL. XLVI

No 14

07-April-2003

KUWAIT

Ratqa/Abdali Production Back At 85,000 B/D

Joint production from the Ratqa and Abdali oilfields on the countrys northern border with Iraq has returned to capacity of around 85,000 b/d, a Kuwaiti oil official said on 2 April. The two fields were closed down in February as a precaution ahead of the war, and output started again in the last week of March (MEES, 31 March). Kuwaits output averaged 2.2mn b/d for the first half of March and 2.4mn b/d for the second...